Posted on 09/26/2004 10:35:35 AM PDT by Levante
The problem with Canada's military, as one directive put it recently, is that the military is too small to carry out it's tasks, yet too big for it's shrinking budget. Today, we commit comparatively less money to our military than any other country in NATO except Luxembourg. Despite all of this, health care and social services, not national security, dominate the debate.
"Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But Roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right." -Hilaire Belloc
Inside the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, among books bearing the names of 115,000 Canadians killed overseas on military service, a solemn epitaph declares: "War has not spared our people."
The words are a testament not to a bellicose nation, but to Canada's record of courage and fortitude in the face of foreign peril. Like Hilaire Belloc, the English poet and philosopher, Canadians have understood through most of our history that military power is the necessary price of inhabiting a world with real enemies and real evil, where peace can sometimes only be purchased through the harsh rigours of realpolitik.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Canada has realized they don't need a military, because they are the neighbors of the U.S. - even though they can barely tolerate us, they seem to enjoy the fruits of our defense spending...
Since I'm not a citizen of Canada it's hard to care too much about whether they have a military or not.
But it's important for Americans to take a look at Canada's military and realize that this is how the Democrats would like the U.S. military to look -- impotent.
Canada=France
There's an unfortunate name for a kid to have in school.
In one of my courses I use a book written by Peter Elbow.
It seems that at some time in the past it was considered fashionable for parents to name their children after two apparently unrelated body parts.
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